Rebecca Gilpin

Brilliant, as you would expect from an Usborne activity book, with great instruction on how to draw those marvellous machines, and the inclusion of stickers make most little people happy. Only four stars though due to the large amount of painting projects, that a) are not always practical and b) are messy for parents to clean up afterwards!

This is a good book for a teacher to have available in her classroom. With almost 60 simple and fun activities, students can begin to understand the basic concepts of things such as friction and static electricity. The items needed for most of the experiments are household products that are inexpensive to purchase. A few of the projects are a little weak; it seems like the authors took a basic experiment and tried to tie a science theme into it. Overall, the book has some cool activities show more that would be quick and easy to do with young children. The pictures are fun to look at too. This is a book I’ll probably have in my future classroom. show less

Summary:
This is an informational book about spiders. It describes how spiders look, where they live, what they eat, and how they protect themselves.

Personal Response:
This is a great book about spiders. It even tells all the gross stuff like how the suck the guts out of their food. I like that it shows all the different kinds of spider.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. This book could be used during a lesson on spiders.
2. I would have my students create their own spider webbs.

This book is Spiders and is very informative. The book describes many spiders in the world. Each page describes a different spider and explains why they are the way they are. The book shows excellent pictures of the spider up close to the point were you can see the spiders skin and very far away. The bbok included a table of contents, and index for all the different spiders, and a websites for children to look up extra information about spiders.

The book does not really relate to me because I show more cant stand spiders. I am terrified of real life spiders but can manage to look at spiders on the internet or in a book.

I would use this book in my class room because everyone know what a spider is but cant exactly tell the different. I would read the book out loud and have the students draw a picture of one of the spiders in the book and describe which spider he or she drew. show less